Post B

Dear Emma,

How is it that you continue to be persistent in helping this man when all he gives you is a few words for your one paragraph letter. I understand that you are trying to become a better person but there comes a time when one should try a different option. I am not saying that you should give up on writing to prisoners, rather that you should try writing to a different prisoner. They might enjoy your letters more than Chance does. It seems to me that he is leading you on in a bad way. Rather than telling you or even suggesting topics to converse about, he lets you guess and tells you whether or not it is a suitable topic. The only somewhat deep answer he gave you is to be yourself. To me that sounds really creepy, seeing as how he has never met you, and was sent to prison for killing his wife. He may want more than a pen pal relationship and even if he isn't guilty for killing his wife, there was a reason that man was arrested. In his trial that John told you, there were more people rooting for him, rather than his dead wife. To me, that kind of behavior is not normal in an inappropriate kind of way. And you said that you feel safe talking to him because he is behind bars and can do nothing to you. What happens when he gets out? Or if he escapes? He would come looking for you. I don't understand why you aren't as comfortable talking to your husband as you are with Chance. Chance is a complete stranger and if you open up too much.... Well it can't be good.

~Lauren